Saguenay international
short film festival

Film
28e
Buffer Zone
Savvas Stavrou
Cyprus, United Kingdom, Fiction
Two young soldiers across enemy lines fall in love and find escape from their oppressive environments through music.
Film
28e
Bust
Angalis Field
United States, Fiction
A trans girl cop with the NYPD goes undercover to make a drug bust.
Film
28e
Bye Bear
Jan Bitzer
Germany, Animation
The 80s. A run-down motel. This is where a secret club of robot friends gather regularly to live out their dreams of being something else. They share a desire to be animals. On this night, it’s a goodbye party for one of them. This friend will change and leave for good.
Film
28e
Caches
Nicolas Paquet
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Every Fall in Northern Quebec, hunters escape into the wilderness to hide, to wait, to be alone with nature and their thoughts.
Film
28e
Chat mort
Annie-Claude Caron & Danick Audet
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
What were Catherine and Louis thinking when they chose a cat with distinctive white spots? It would have been much easier to replace if they had picked the all-back one! Now, they will have to tell their daughter Sophie that Nugget’s dead. Unless…
Film
28e
Chewy Thanksgiving
Pat Tremblay
Canada (Quebec), Experimentation
Retro and Satirical vision of Thanksgiving
Film
28e
Chien de sang
Louis Moulin
Canada (Quebec), Documentary
Blood dog handlers have an essential role in Québec's hunting season. This movie is an encounter with a unique job that fluctuate between long awaits and intense researches into the Canadian forest.
Film
28e
Christmas at Moose Factory
Alanis Obomsawin
Canada (Unceded Territories), Animation
Released in 1971, this lyrical short documentary marked the directorial debut of legendary Abenaki director Alanis Obomsawin. Filmed at a residential school in northern Ontario, it is composed entirely of drawings by young Cree children and stories told by the children themselves. Listening has been at the core of Obomsawin’s practice since the very beginning. “Documentary film,” she said in a 2017 interview, “is the one place that our people can speak for themselves. I feel that the documentaries that I’ve been working on have been very valuable for the people, for our people to look at ourselves… and through that be able to make changes that really count for the future of our children to come.”
Film
28e
Chroniques labradoriennes
André Forcier
Canada (Quebec), Fiction
André Forcier's second film, in which he plays one of the leading roles, is a delirious farce that cheerfully blends archival footage, colorful and black-and-white fictional shots. It revolves around themes of betrayal, Labrador, and "Québec libre".
Film
28e
Circle
Yumi Joung
South Korea, Animation
Special mention of the Best Animation Short Film Award

The girl draws a circle on the ground.
Passersby step into it, one by one.
Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within.
Once the girl returns and erase the circle, people start heading their way.